Submit the first 10 pages of your script, get feedback from professionals, and get your screenplay performed by professional actors. At least 2-5 winners every single month.
Free logline submissions. The Writing Festival network averages over 95,000 unique visitors a day.
Great way to get your story out: http://www.wildsound.ca/logline.html
Submit your Film, Screenplay, Novel, Story, or Poem anytime to the festival today: http://www.wildsound.ca
Free logline submissions. The Writing Festival network averages over 95,000 unique visitors a day.
Great way to get your story out: http://www.wildsound.ca/logline.html
Submit your Film, Screenplay, Novel, Story, or Poem anytime to the festival today: http://www.wildsound.ca
Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.
NEW OPTION: Or, just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published. (see examples on the video playlist below)
Watch the 3 Winning Short Screenplay Readings from June 2016. All screenplays performed by professional actors. CLICK the links and get to know the writers.
#1 – Short Screenplay: DEATH’S LADY LOVE, by Stephen M. Hunt
Synopsis: The life of Henry, a sombre, homeless man living in the city. It explores ideas on how the public relate to the homeless community and also how the homeless community exists within itself.
Watch the 7 Winning Best Scene Screenplay Readings from June 2016. All screenplays performed by professional actors. CLICK the links and get to know the writers.
#1 – Best Scene Screenplay: AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT by Philip Naiman
After being saddled with the care of a niece he has never met a gambler’s life becomes further complicated when he is unable to pay off his kid brother’s bad debt to a Vegas hood.
#2 – Best Scene Screenplay: QUEST FOR MIHTE LUGH by Ray Whittinger
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Synopsis:
Jack was thought a dreamer and a fool, until he was abducted into the Balor’s wintery kingdom. Through trial and wit he is recognised as the prophesied Fairy King returning to revive the world.
A serial killer who turns his victims bodies into works of art becomesfixated on a little girl. She has dreams of him and thinks he is her angel, her mother pays little attention to it until the girl makes a model of the murderer.
When a drug dealer is killed in Harlem, NY, a corrupt cop is ordered to solve the case. A conscious witness in the community steps forward. Unbeknownst to her, her testimony can implicate him, unearths secrets about his partner, and reveals the paralyzing effect of “NO SNITCHING” in the community.
2. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
This screenplay should be made into a movie because it deals with sensitive polarizing subject of the term “snitching”. Delving into the issues which surround numerous communities and their constant fear of speaking out.
Fear that they won’t be protected and fear of the stigma it places on them if they come forward. . It also takes a look at those people who hold their community in fear with violence because they really have no power
3. How would you describe this script in two words?
insightful, edgy
4. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
Sugar Hill
5. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
For 2 years
6. How many stories have you written?
I have written about 40 stories in my life. I am an author or 2 books which feature numerous short stories I have writen
4 plays. 2 movie scripts.
7. What motivated you to write this screenplay?
Gun violence. A changing community which is Harlem, USA.
8. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
The piece was written originally as a full length play. But in play form the script was too adventurous for the stage. The constant scene changes and cast made it difficult to produce theatrically.
So a decision was made to convert it into a screenplay.
9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
I enjoy music. Jazz and hip in particular. I’m passionate about reading and also helping people tell their own stories in different formats – books, plays, movies
10. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
I was motivated to enter the festival because I wanted to share the script. It was written several years ago and has really been just taking space on my computer. Waiting to be heard.
It was a scene shot for potential producers but that project folded. And I always wanted to put it into a festival or reading event where I could find out what works and doesn’t. I’m still learning the format of screen writing.
I welcomed it. As any writer criticism can be tough but in order to make progress you have to be willing to receive it. And the feedback has been invaluable. Some of the critiques I was aware of and some I wasn’t. Helps me sharpen my pen.
11. Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
be unafraid to share your work. Many people have masterpieces they are sitting on because they are afraid of criticism or they fear it will never get done. We write to create and then to share.
So share continuously — finding new ways to tell your story will help you grow as a writer.
This week’s writing festival is a showcase of the July 2016 winning feature screenplay. Plus, 8 winning short screenplay performance readings.
They will be performed by some of the top actors working in Toronto today.
Here are the details of the screenplays being performed:
Feature Screenplay – FIEND by Jeff York
Genre: Horror, Thriller
When famed Jekyll & Hyde author Robert Louis Stevenson turns out himself to be a dangerous split personality, the only one who can save him and London from his fiendish alter ego is a maverick American psychiatrist with daring, unconventional methods.
Short Screenplay – THE TRENCH by Chris Beadnell
Genre: Action
After successfully shelling the German trench on the Somme battlefield, the British soldiers move in to clear the area of any enemy survivors.
Short Screenplay – STRANGER by Jason Smith
Genre: Drama
A young girl wakes up in the passenger seat of a strangers car.
COMEDY Writings and Films showcased in 2015:
28 – Screenplays Performed
8 – Novels/Stories Performed
22 – Films Showcased at Festival
(Scroll down and watch winning performance videos)
Get your script and story performed by professional actors at the Comedy Festival. Get your Short Film showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival and get a audience video.
The #1 Comedy Festival and Contest in the World today!
– 0ffers screenwriters, novelists and storytellers at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS (see below for recent performance readings).
– Offers filmmakers to get their works showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Then the filmmaker will receive and audience reaction video on their film (see below for recent film festival videos)
– One of the best places in the world for the writers to sell their script and/or obtain and agent.
First Scene Screenplay Festival 